Pathetic and incompetent service by WebWay Host (VE Host)
One of the WORST companies I have ever had to deal with… WebWayhost (formerly known as VE Host) has all the bells and whistles to woo you(as a customer) and once you're in - reality strikes that ‘not all that glittered was gold’
Created an online profile with them on Monday, February 3 and was flooded with calls and emails reminding me to sign-up for one of their services. Ultimately placed an order for a web hosting package on Friday, February 14.
All seemed well until they had to migrate my website from my previous host to their server.
Excuses of how large the files were and compression thereof started to emanate. They, then asked me to consult with my previous host to increase the web disk space (twice), which they duly did to accommodate the backup.
Two days later WebWayhost had still not completed the migration as they claim to be encountering difficulties.
On Sunday, February 16 an email was received from them requesting that I give them a review on Google and Facebook.
I responded and raised a number of issues as to why I was not satisfied with how things have been conducted, hoping that they would right the wrongs but instead they saw it fit to instruct me, once again, to liaise with my previous host to back-up the web files, compress and submit them to me so I can forward to them and they can download and restore them for me.
What kind of fallacy is that? Where in the Web Hosting world have you ever heard such a thing? Whose responsibility is it to migrate a new client's website upon signing up? I'm definitely sure that it is not the responsibility of the previous host.
Even if one were to do research in acquiring a hosting, most (if not all) web hosting company will advise you that they will undertake migration themselves - and this is what I expected out of WebWayhost.
To rub salt into the wound, I was told that despite all these (at least) I can testify how committed they (WebWayhost) are to getting me started considering how soon they migrated my databases and emails(*sic*).
What are the chances that whenever I encounter problems and open a ticket, instead of stepping-up I will be directed to liaise with the previous host?
In the beginning of the week, I received an email from a different personnel asking why I’m leaving after I cancelled the order placed three days ago and citing ‘not satisfied’ - Responding to it was a waste of my time as it was responded to by the same person who couldn’t back my website files for migration.
Overall, I would not recommend WebWayhost nor advise any website owner to look their way for any online business solutions.
14 February 2025
Unprompted review